5. Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.
6. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
7. For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
8. If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are higher than they.
9. Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
12. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13. There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
14. But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15. As he came into the world, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16. And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath labored for the wind?